EVE General Discussion

I keep hearing rumors about the removal of local channel in the next expansion. If this is true, why? It is dangerous enough out there as it is. How do they expect us to stay safe from pirates if we don't know they are coming?

Answer me that!

You know those sweet modules you are using is provided by us. If you force us to leave then how will you get the?

Answer me that!

That ship you are flying... That is right. We mined it for you and the A,B,C ores are not in high sec. So if we can not mine in peace how will you get your ship.

Answer me that!

Scrap the entire expansion if you have to, but local channel MUST stay. PERIOD.

April Fools!

You have nothing to fear but fear it's self.


Oh and cloaked ships that are armed to the teeth

Well they are turning Eve into World of Eve, Eve is getting softer every 6 months, now we have duelling and bounties paid out on ship kills and not just pod kills.

The reasons to pay for a hard core dangerious game are getting less and less twice a year.

They are losing their original market demographic for a softer one, frankly because the populous is getting dumber and dumber.

When is enough enough? We will find out in time, by then better games will be out that will take over our time and money until the point Eve becomes a memory of the past like other good games "have been".


I had one miner cry so hard for putting a bounty on him, he asked why, i said either 1) fun or 2) because he left 1.0 space.

He is the future of CCP's market aparently.

I guess money is money, theyre dumb enough to spend it, so I don't blame CCP for wanting a piece of their stupid pie.

A: That was, as said, an April Fools joke.

B: It's also something a bunch of people want. However, in most cases, it's not a 'Remove, don't replace' it's a 'Remove, replace with something more appropriate'.

Local is perfect Intel, with no effort. Leaving your cursor over it and waiting for it to flash isn't effort. This isn't a good thing. CCP agree it's not a good thing. There have been a number of suggestions on how this could be adjusted, so it's going to be interesting to see what happens.

And it's not like it's /required/. Just look at people in Wormholes.

Don't remove it, DELAY it like Wspace. EVERYWHERE.

Local shouldn't be instant anywhere, but it needs a replacement that works differently, but not something that is trivially defeated by "train a frigate V and cloaking IV"

You can't really tell nullseccers "oh, we're going to make you a fish in a barrel" because that's dumb. Hunting ratters should be more than just "open map, look for high NPC kills, set destination, cloak warp cloak warp" but keeping "safe" while PvEing should be more than "click user in local, ctrl-A, semi-passively observe userlist for changes".

Changing the way local works while leaving everything else equal would make hunting utterly effortless - fit a cyno bomber with a point, go to an active ratting system, warp to anomalies, find a ratter, decloak, point, light your cyno for a bunch of blackops BS to jump in, kill it in moments and slip back out.

You'd have a few days of easy kills followed by months of nullsec being a desert between fleet ops.

Not really all that different from today's nullsec, though. :v:

Did you find all the Easter eggs? Just make sure you do and not 6 months later when... well when they are no longer 'fresh'.

Goons don't rat for ISK. The corp pays for all. Whats your play here?